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Fitzroy by John and Mary Gribbin
34.99 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Admiral FitzRoy was descended from the illegitimate son of King Charles II and made his name as a captain on the HMS Beagle. It was for his second voyage on the ship (1832-36) that he decided to ask Charles Darwin to accompany him, and it was during this time that Darwin began to develop the ideas that ...Show more
Ice Age by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
On 24th June, 1837 Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences by addressing them, in his role as President, not with an anticipated lecture on fossil fishes, but with a passionate presentation on the existence of Ice Ages. No one was convinced. He even dragged the ...Show more
Time Travel for Beginners by Mary & John Gribbin
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Physicists can't yet build time machines but they know that the laws of physics would allow one to exist. Scientists are investigating the manipulation of potential 'natural' time machines such as black holes, and other possibilities. All of these are discussed - not the detail of the mathematical equat ...Show more
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